Islamabad December 2 2022: The SPI for the current week ended on 01st December, 2022 recorded a decrease of 0.16 percent, according to data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
Major decrease is observed in the prices of food items, Tomatoes (12.26 percent), Onions (2.79 percent), Chicken (1.71 percent), Pulse Gram (0.68 percent), Pulse Masoor (0.64 percent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (0.38 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (0.12 percent), Cooking Oil 5 litre & Gur (0.11 percent) each and non-food item, LPG (-0.42 percent).
On the other hand major increase is observed in the prices of Bananas (3.36 percent), Tea Lipton (1.72 percent), Potatoes (1.65 percent), Match Box & Salt Powdered (1.32 percent) each and Rice Irri-6/9 (1.23 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 23 (45.10 percent) items increased, 10 (19.61 percent) items decreased and 18 (35.29 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts an increase of 30.56 percent, Onions (388.52 percent), Tomatoes (73.25 percent), Diesel (64.57 percent), Tea Lipton (62.61 percent), Salt Powdered (55.29 percent), Petrol (53.85 percent), Pulse Gram (52.71 percent), Gents Sponge Chappal (52.21 percent), Bananas (52.02 percent), Eggs (51.87 percent), Pulse Moong (47.67 percent), Pulse Mash (43.44 percent) and Mustard Oil (42.51 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Chillies Powdered (40.90 percent), Gur (5.35 percent) and Electricity for Q1 (2.67 percent).
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